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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for bloody violence, some strong sexuality, nudity, drug use and pervasive language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • While not the focus, women's underwear under their skirts can be seen in several shots.
  • In the opening scene, the main characters bust a child pornography ring; nothing is shown.
  • A man (Chad) and a woman (Gwen) undress each other and have sex; her breasts and pubic region are seen, also his bare rear. Another character watches them on camera. After they're interrupted, they walk around in their underwear for a few minutes.
  • Another couple start making out; he takes off her outer shirt and she wraps her legs around his torso. They stop before they have sex.

Violence & Gore

  • Blood drips down a long wall.
  • One character hallucinates that his hands are covered in fresh blood.
  • A dog eats a severed human hand.
  • A bloody corpse is found in a car trunk; a character vomits several times off-screen, and some is seen dribbling out of his mouth.
  • Characters encounter a cannibal as she's eating human flesh; one chases after her and starts beating him. Another cannibal slices the man's head off with an ax; his friends and the camera get covered in blood.
  • A character is repeatedly stabbed in the back; the bloody knife is shown in close-up, and can be seen protruding from his back. He is dragged off, and he screams that he's being eaten.
  • A cop shoots the cannibal; blood splatters on the wall.
  • One cannibal taunts the cop by spitting out the eyes of one of the main characters and placing them over the cop's own eyes.

Profanity

  • Two uses of the c-word (one barely audible), at least sixty f-words, several uses each of "a**hole," "g*dd*mn," "s**t," and other profanities.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • One of the main characters is seen in the background buying drug. Immediate after he talks about taking pills every day.
  • Characters smoke cigarettes regularly.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Several people are killed throughout the film and the gory deaths are shown, including blood and wounds.
  • Jump scares are prevalent throughout the film.
  • The premise is that four twenty-somethings spend a night in a haunted house to investigate it; the previous owners are said to have been satanists who sacrificed children. Images related to this are shown in flashback.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • It turns out that the cannibals are the children of the house's owners; the parents killed themselves in the wake of the rumors regarding their satanism. Their corpses and a suicide note in blood are shown.
  • The male cannibal hacks one of the girls in half; her entrails are shown, and she begs for the other girl to shoot her. She complies.
  • One girl drowns the female cannibal in a puddle of mud.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • One character accidentally puts LSD in the group's water supply, causing them to hallucinate.

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